Karzai agreed to the November runoff election after intense diplomatic arm twisting by the United States.
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Both campaigns had accused each other of fraud leading up to last weekend's runoff election.
However if no candidate wins 50 percent of the votes, a runoff election will be held next month.
And French National Front Leader Jean Marie Le Pen made it through to the presidential runoff election in 2002.
Billionaire Sebastian Pinera was elected president of Chile yesterday, after a runoff election against former president Eduardo Frei.
Former mayor Maurice Ferre will face Manny Diaz, an attorney for the Miami relatives of Elian Gonzalez, in a runoff election.
Ten days after his runoff election win, Sarkozy became president in 2007.
That outcome set up a runoff election, now scheduled for June 27.
Meanwhile, pilots considered to be hardliners won election to two of three leadership posts in Philadelphia, with a runoff election required for the third post.
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In a third race with no incumbent running, the candidates are headed to a runoff election in May since neither garnered more than 50 percent of the vote.
The court also ruled that former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq can remain a presidential candidate in this weekend's runoff election, despite his close association with the former regime.
An April runoff election between the two candidates is expected.
And Brazilian Dilma Rousseff (No. 95), who has served as Chief of Staff, is expected to clinch the presidency in an Oct. 31 runoff election against rival Jose Serra.
This would have resulted in an embarrassing runoff election.
According to official results, Kenyatta won 50.07 percent of the vote, narrowly avoiding a runoff election against Odinga, who said his case before the Supreme Court would put Kenya's democracy on trial.
When Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court dissolved parliament just before the runoff election, many activists accused the military of orchestrating a soft coup, but the few calls for mass protest were largely ignored.
In the second, the court rejected a law barring former regime members from running for president, clearing the way for Ahmed Shafik, the last prime minister under former Mubarak, to run in this weekend's runoff election.
Lawyers for Odinga, the loser in Kenya's last two elections, had argued before the Supreme Court that the election was marred by irregularities and that Kenyatta did not win enough votes to avoid a runoff election.
Kerry persuaded Afghan President Hamid Karzai to agree to an election runoff in 2009, and he traveled to Pakistan after a series of incidents, including the raid that killed bin Laden.
If the result holds, Kenyatta would win the election without a runoff, as the victor needs only a simple majority.
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All simulations have shown him losing the likely runoff since the beginning of the election campaign.
Under Afghan law, the Electoral Complaints Commission is the final arbiter of fraud, but the authority to order a runoff is in the hands of the Independent Election Commission.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) A slow ballot count in Kenya's presidential vote raised questions Tuesday about the election process, but it was a decision on the more than 325, 000 rejected ballots that made it appear likely the election will be decided in a runoff.
When Caraway did well enough in the primary election to earn a spot in a runoff (which he lost), I wrote a column lamenting that the candidate found a market for his fear mongering and noting that the same was true for George Wallace.
Tsvangirai won the most votes in the March election, but not enough to avoid a runoff, according to the government's official count.
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The men are now set to square off July 31 in the runoff with the winner considered a decided favorite in the general election.
Zimbabweans have yet to learn when a runoff will be held after last week's announcement of the presidential election results.
Afghan election officials have tentatively set November 1 as the date for a runoff if one is necessary.
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